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\ 6 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION in Reply, a Washington, D.C. 20535 Fae he Reto | "August 18, 1969 ABBOTT HOWARD HOFFMAN A review of the case entitled Abbott Howard Hoffman vs. The United States (Case # 4865) on file with the Clerk's Office, D.C. Court of Appeals, Washington, D.C. (WDC), by a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on August 15, 1969, disclosed the following information; On August 14, 1969, the D.C, Court of Appeals ef- firmed the judgment rendered by Judge Andrew J. Howard, Jre, of the D.C, Court of General Sessions convicting Hoffman of defiling the American flag by wesring « shirt resembling the flag and sentencing him to pay a fine of one hundred dollars or serve thirty days in jail on November 20, 1968, Hoffman was arrested on October 3, 1968, when he arrived at the House of Representatives Office Building (WDC), to attend « hearing of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, dressed in a shirt resembling the American flag. Senet Tt pees - £0 we “1% {oO Ae Y Uhis document coniains seitber tecommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and ie loaned to your agency kt and its contents are nol to diatributed outside your agency. —_—— of . rT F